Hip Hop Stickers and Semiotics

A text is not a literal text, but in Semiotics refers to a combination of signs, signifieds, and mechanisms like metonymy. A text could be a sentence, a paragraph, an image, video clip, animation, a story, or even a collection of stories. A collection of signs can be in a single photograph or painting, a video clip, a television show, or even a feature film. Whenever signs come together in the land of semiotics, they become texts.

These texts can be understood, rearranged and put together in different combinations, with different meanings to different groups of people. Cultural texts refer to sign systems, storytelling tools and symbols that contribute and shape a society’s culture. They have underlying cultural meanings. They either require certain cultural knowledge to be understood, they are produced through a certain cultural context or, as most texts do, become representative of a culture and its values.

But cultural texts are not one-dimensional. A text is not simply representative of one culture, it does not belong to one culture, even if it purposefully excludes others semiotically. Cultural texts are multi-dimensional, they are dynamic.

A cultural text is perhaps better understood as having cultural layers of understanding. Where groups different in age, race, nationality, sexual orientation may read and understand a collection of signs in different ways. Depending on the producer or the audience, the text itself has a kind of flexibility in meaning to different people when it starts to operate culturally.

“Hip Hop Stickers and Semiotics” represents the many woven layers of fabric that has ultimately shaped a diverse, yet distinctive culture in Hip Hop.

Gain access (and insight) into this beautiful culture and share it with family, friends, and colleagues by downloading an authentic representation of Hip Hop Culture created and curated by actual the members of its own community!

App Features:

・Stickers work in Facebook and other Social Media Apps that support photo sharing (via copy/paste)
・New Content Added Regularly
・Featured Artist and/or Projects (Coming Soon)

PLEASE NOTE:

Hip Hop Stickers is mainly an iMessage App. Although you will see an icon for this app on the home screen of your device (with in-app purchase information), the stickers are accessible via your iMessage and/or Text Message UI. The icon will also ap­pear in your messages in­ter­face.

Pro Tips:

to "peel" the stick­er youd like to use...

Press firmly on the sticker, while holding down... drag it to wherever youd like to "stick it" within your current message thread.

While still hold­ing the stick­er, you can use a sec­ond fin­ger to pinch and zoom in or out to in­crease or de­crease the size.

While still hold­ing the stick­er, you can also use a sec­ond fin­ger to ro­tate it in a dif­fer­ent di­rec­tions.

Disclaimer: Any content, names, characters, and/or incidents portrayed in this sticker pack are completely fictitious. No identification or any resemblance with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, events, and/or brands is intended or should be inferred.